putin has allowed this.s the secretary said, those videos themselves even included criticizing putin's very premise of the war that it was not started by nato, there were not nazis in ukraine. and then entering into moscow, entering into russia itself and taking their convoy to moscow shows the basic issue of whether or not putin controls his military. for any government to have stability, they have to control their military. obviously, prigozhin in order to make that's distance, where was the russian air force preventing this? that's an issue that putin will have to deal with internationally and domestically, is, you know, his government as an authoritarian government, depends on its assertion of power force to contain -- to continue to weald power and that certainly is going to be an issue. >> was vladimir putin himself aware of the potential of this uprising? >> well, you know, i can't go into what our intelligence was. these videos he was allowing prigozhin to put out were public and distributed around t

putin. >> translator: we are at headquarters at 7:30 a.m. military facilities including the air are under our control. planes that leave for combat work as usual. no problems. medical fights are leaving as usual. all we did was attack so they would not strike us but strike in the ukrainian direction. >> prigozhin had himself filmed alongside senior military leaders. they looked almost like hostages surrounded by prigozhin and his armed men. he was demanding that the chief of the staff be delivered to him as well as the defense secretary, defense minister rather sergei, and he said until that happened he would blockade and also move on moscow. he had claimed to take over an air base. wagner has since claimed to have taken over some miss tmilitary sites. we know the government in the province has ordered people to stay away from the highway. there have been reports unconfirmed of clashes taking place around there. this is a very tense and fragile moment because initially prigozhin was basicall

lukashenko is putin's puppet here.don't know what the next step is for prigozhin and his forces. what is the most unlikely outcome for that. >> yeah, sort of pick your propaganda, pick your lie. this is a frankenstein-type of scenario that vladimir putin himself has orchestrated and developed in his 23 years in office. so, whether you think you can believe dmitri plikov, or vladimir putin, it's a heavy dose of skepticism that we interpret anything we hear from them. this, it does appear, took the kremlin and caught them off guard. and now there's a game of catch-up. and the big question is was russian intelligence aware of what yevgeny prigozhin was planning to do? this was sort of in the open. he was very adamant about his vitt tree yos of the war. and that having been said, there are thousands of wagner mercenaries sort of hanging in the balance now, vladimir putin suggesting that he has quelled this revolt. and has stepped in to avoid further bloodshed. that was similar to what we heard from yevgeny prigozhin. remem

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with putin or prigozhin.so a mass murderer mercenary, where options are really not great. >> the secretary of state antony blinken was on meet the press, and asked an escalating question about the role of believers in all of this in terms of negotiating the revolution of all of us. he says the president of butler's lukashenko is seen as a puppet of the vladimir putin. but he says popstar often mutiny against their puppeteers here. what does that mean that vladimir putin has to rely on someone he viewed as a puppet to negotiate his way out of the wagner group, pretty much landing in moscow? >> i think belichick is more dependent on russia and russia will ever be of belarus, we need to make sure that russia relies on him this way, he plays a role in this public spectacle. how much of that spectacle, it's difficult to say. if you get professional propagandists and the chronic liars, you can't trust words from putin, from prigozhin, from anybody involved in this conflict, including belarusian officials, [inaudibl

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war comes to putin's door. the paper predicting the end is near for putin. can that be?e are covering a story from every angle coming up tennessee republican senator marsha blackburn, general jackie are here with what it all means and what comes next. next we have a live team coverage around the world. trey yingst with insight from his own experience covering russia and the ukraine war. lucas tomlinson at the white house with reaction from washington. but for senior foreign affairs correspondent greg palkot. he is live in kyiv where things in there today, greg? >> hi arthel. it looks like we are back from the brink in russia. but there is still a lot of damage done at a lot of questions to answer. the wagner group mercenary fighters pulled out last night from the southwestern russian city of rostov-on-don and took over for a day as well as other locations they reached including closer to moscow. heading back to the base camp and ukraine with yevgeny prigozhin it was his anger with the russian military and its running of the war ukraine that triggered this attempted armed

what does putin do now? does he get desperate or sort of sit back and assess the scene now that he has supposedly gotten prigozhin out of the way and off to belarus, we should underline what we were reporting earlier this evening. even the kremlin was saying, we don't exactly know where he is. that's one of the many puzzling things. >> yes. it has been an incredible day, no doubt about that. where the kremlin is rate now. if you look at the statement, he makes this statement about this is all wrapped up in a bow. we're done. and he's asked, is putin going to talk again, and he says no. he won't make any more comments. so this set to me, la la la, never mind, i'm trying to put this genie back in the bottle and prigozhin is pretty big to stuff back in the bottle and i don't think it is possible. we've seen a lot of myths shattered over the last, you know, 48 hours. and there are no way to put it back together again. i think this could take quite some time. it's not the end of the story but we don't know how lo

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tonight vladimir putin romised making. tonight vladimir putin promised to — making.g _ making. tonight vladimir putin promised to bring the - making. tonight vladimir putin promised to bring the wagner. making. tonight vladimir putin - promised to bring the wagner leaders tojustice promised to bring the wagner leaders to justice but promised to bring the wagner leaders tojustice but said promised to bring the wagner leaders to justice but said the majority of soldiers were patriots. the possibility of further violence can't be excluded as the man who was once the present possible produce for henchmen is now firmly emery. —— the president's useful henchmen. is regime change a real possibility? let's speak to a former head of the cia, retired general david petraeus. i want to ask you first of all, as the west missed an opportunity here? well, i don't think so. i think the west has been very careful to try and show that it has been on the sidelines. this is not a cia plot. we didn't bring this about. we don't need any more friction than already exists. it isjust need an

so people around putin were telling putin what putin wanted to hear.in has developed this entire narrative, this kind of mythology about ukraine, that it's not a real country, that it's never really been separate from russia, that they're really just one people. and anyone around putin knew that that was what putin wanted to hear. and so all prigozhin was saying was the truth about this particular if matter. and, by the way, let's not be mistaken, both prigozhin and putin are blood thirty and have a lot of blood on their hands, both men do. and just because in this case one man was telling the truth about the operation in ukraine does not somehow imbue him with any angelic features. that said, a lot of what prigozhin said did get out to the general russian public, and i can't imagine that it helps the morale of the russian conscripts fighting ukrainians on ukrainian soil against an army that, frankly, has far better morale and training than russians do at the moment. so i think that this will have ram by occasions, positive ramifications for ukraine in

putin can't stop him. he's setting up roadblocks and putin flees the city. goes to a palace bunker in northern russia out of appear. what a contrast with president zelenskyy of ukraine. remember in the early stages of that conflict when russia invaded ukraine in the early weeks and headed toward kiev zelenskyy was offered safe passage from the city and said i need ammo, not a ride. putin took the ride in this case out of moscow and went and hunkered down in a palace bunker. mean time yevgeny prigozhin looks like the biggest gun in russia rolling towards moscow endangering his life. his army chiefs are sitting back in their circumstances in moscow sending russian men to their death in this meat grinder not seeming to care of about it. putin no longer looks like the toughest guy in russia. remember in dictatorships like this the main man stays in power by looking tougher and stronger than everybody else and that's not what putin looks like today. >> certainly a stark contrast. we will see what happens next. steve fisher answer that for joining us knowledge app

the putin of five years ago, the putin that was more engaged as opposed to the putin of today who is, who doesn't want to hear any bad news, i can't imagine the wagner group leader making as much progress if he tried this a number of years back. >> can you imagine viewed going on national television accusing prigozhin of being a traitor, literally, of a stab in the back and projecting vulnerability as he did on saturday morning? >> saying that and then five hours later cutting a deal with the same prigozhin. remember, neither of these guys are good guys. we know how awful and evil in so many ways putin has been. but prigozhin is head of this mercenary group who have done atrocities in syria, in ukraine, in countries in africa. prigozhin was the owner of the internet research agency who interfered in our elections in 2016, and he's subject to american indictment. so this is a very bizarre circumstance. but the lead-up in terms of prigozhin's comments, this has been happening literally for weeks. in some cases months, calling out the leadership of the russian war effort. >> do we have

putin is weak. putin's hold on power is weakened. it is exactly what putin wants us to believe. russia/ukraine comfort going on right now. putin is hemorrhaging forces. which he is afraid is the deployment of nato forces into the theater into ukraine. in which case he would almost certainly lose the war. and so he wants to demonstrate the cognitive disconnect in the analysis of washington establishment specifically president biden. on the one hand people like lindsey graham and others in president biden himself said this man can no longer remain in power. on the other hand they are saying he is weak but then they are saying he is going to go after a nato country but if he is a week putin wants to believe that he is weak. that there is an ongoing threat of a military insurrection. there is an actual doctrine called reflexive control that the general staff has developed. what does it mean? the study the mindset of the adversary, meaning us and they figure out what is the confirmation bias? what are we likely to believe? this is a pretext to declare martial law which putin has alre

of putin.y no way that he hasn't been massively weakened by this. the wagner group probably is around 25,000 troops, maybe 10,000 civilian contractors. the russian armed forces is various pieces of its national guard, interior ministry, fsb, 1.4 million. so, i think wagner group, prigozhin, thought he could get them to flip to him. on the face of it, it didn't make any sense. this guy is a criminal, the leadership of the wagner group tends to be motivated by greed. they get the steal, gold diamonds, oil in africa and elsewhere in the world. it's a sort of shaky proposition. i wouldn't want to overstate the importance of the wagner group, the russian combat effort in ukraine. the air force, the navy, the bulk of are -- the most important branch of the russian army, the book of the armor troops are all russian army. not wagner group. the re-about 25,000 people when they deserted, they got cut up and tortured to death. they had huge, maybe 30,000 casualties. so although i do think they were violen

a close ally of putin's.oves will be? >> well, that's the question. isn't it? but i think putin, you know what did prigoshin want? prigoshin has said he wants to get rid of the leadership of the military. people like the defense minister, and general garosomov. we don't know whether he got that behind the scenes. we ought to be watching. is he still around, still the defense minister? that would be one. then also, by sticking prigoshin in belarus that doesn't really solve the problem, because prigoshin, you know, is powerful in the sense that he makes a lot of money solving problems for putin around the world. into blood diamonds in africa. providing security in conflict zones, et cetera. so i don't think it's as easy to say good-bye go to belarus and never meet again. he is a threat no matter where he goes. the question that should be asked, i think, and won't be answered, of course, for a while, but does prigoshin get paid off in some way? does he get to keep the companies that he's got? because not only, y

two, to putin, putin's russia and russia's putin. so, if he sees this as the united states trying to foment regime change, if the russian people see, that they may be more likely to support him ratcheting it up and using a tactical nuke on the battlefield. i think just support ukraine as they make advantage to push russia out. russia, again, they are going to be, they're going to see their resources in decline as they have to move them to protect moscow. we don't have to do anything behind the scenes for regime change. and we do better if that was organic anyway. >> what are your republican colleagues saying about all of this? >> well, there is responsible republicans who have supported the effort. there is the putin curious and the putin block. in their inaction, like speaker mccarthy who has said essentially is not gonna be any funding for ukraine, essentially helping putin. and that's right unity right now is so important. if we can do all we can right now to help ukraine make this push as russia is on its heels, this could change

does he have the support of vladimir putin or he is willing to challenge vladimir putin directly? that is something that u.s. officials just didn't know. and right now, of course, they are hopeful that this doesn't create the kind of instability in russia that would compromise, for example, russia's nuclear weapons. that say big concern that u.s. officials have. it is a nuclear state. so, what does this instability mean for the country and the broader region? vladimir putin obviously is not the friend of the united states. so, on the other hand, of course, you know, there was a consideration here about whether he could be deposed and whether this could cause a big distraction, of course, from the war in ukraine that could allow ukraine to make a military breakthrough. >> can i just throw something out of left field? not too left field, i hope. but you've been covering also, you know, the visit of modi. we know secretary of state blinken has been going to china. it must give those two leaders pause about the longevity of the, you know, of vladimir putin. >> what do you think? >> i

putin uses belarus as a back yard.e russia the bbc�*s verify team worked to sift through videos on social media to track the convoy of wagner vehicles. they are now assessing the aftermath. 0ur europe correspondent, nick beake, has been working with the team and is in the bbc verify hub with more. thank you. yes, what exactly happened yesterday and just how much fighting was there between the wagner mercenaries who said they were going all the way to moscow and the regular russian army? well, here at bbc verify, we've spent the past 2a hours looking at some of the video that's emerged, and have been trying to make sense of all of it. let me show you one video in particular. now, this shows what is believed to be a russian helicopter by a main road here. and you can see that it opens fire on what is believed to be a wagner target. we don't know that for sure, but you can see just here the explosion and the aftermath of it. the video itself, we have managed to verify and you can see the helicopterjust wheeling away there

>> today it means that putin's authority -- we saw putin weak and his authority was shaken and in terms of consequences it might be a little bit unpredictable because we have never seen him so weak. >> do you feel -- are you concerned about that element that kevin was talking about, that because he feels weaker he may have to act stronger and we may see the repercussions of that in the war in ukraine? >> yes, i think so. in terms of escalation, it might be very dangerous because putin he is a strong man and he always been -- he always looks strong and this is the first time when he demonstrated that he can be -- could be weak. so escalation it's a very possible scenario. escalation on the ukrainian front and the battlefield and also in the -- inside russia. >> what do you think might have been the terms of the deal that prigozhin agreed to? do you think the senior members of the military will remain in office, for example? >> i think so because they must. they must stay in their position, otherwise it will be like yevgeny prigozhin was winning completely. so i think so, yes. shoigu will

you get one guy like prigozhin, who has the temerity to stand up to putin, and putin looks very weak, and everything can change very quickly under those circumstances. >> yeah. massive implications for all of this. really great to get your expertise on this developing story. m. steven fish, thank you so much. >>> we'll have much more on the tense situation in russia still ahead. who is yevgeny prigozhin, the shadowy leader of the wagner mercenary group? we'll have a live report from london next. stay with you. hey hon. hey dad...(sniffs) that smell could be 8,000,000 odor causing bacteria. good thing adding lysol laundry sanitizer kills 99.9% of bacteria that detergents leave behind clean is goo sanitized is better. ♪ we moved out of the city so our little sophie could appreciate nature. but then he got us t-mobile home internet. i was just trying to improve our signal, so some of the trees had to go. i might've taken it a step too far. (chainsaw revs) (tree crashes) (chainsaw continues) (daughter screams) let's pretend for a second that you didn't let down your entire family. what wo

he knows that he's been disloyal to putin, and putin hates disloyalty.ows his days are potentially numbered. >> yeah, nic robertson, great reporting and great context as always. thanks so much. >>> coming up, how the 2024 republican presidential candidates are reacting to all these developments in russia over the weekend. >> take a look at this, a twister ripping through a town outside indianapolis, damaging at least 75 homes. that's ahead, coming up. >> terrible. terrible. oh booking.com, ♪ i'm going to somewhere, anywhere. ♪ ♪ a beach house, a treehouse, ♪ ♪ honestly i don't care ♪ find the perfect vacation rental for you booking.com, booking. yeah. what's considered normal for your cat is interesting. but if your cat isn't their quirky self lately, they may have pain from a common condition called osteoarthritis. now, there's solensia. solensia is a once-monthly injection to control your cat's oa pain. veterinary professionals administering solensia who are pregnant, trying to conceive, or breast feeding should take extreme care to avoid self-injectio

even if putin might have agreed in this unwritten or unspoken agreement, to do certain things, putin has gone back on his word before. he's not going to want to emerge from this, as looking weak. submissive. as someone who, again, gave into prigozhin. because that could only encourage others to do the same thing. >> director brennan, if you are advising the president right now from an intelligence perspective, what would you be telling him watching this all play out in the geopolitical implications of it all? >> well, i think i say it's still very unsettled. we'll be trying to get a handle on exactly what is happening inside the kremlin, throughout the country. what the impact is on the broader russian military. with the impact as far as the war fighting in ukraine. what we should be doing in support of ukraine. maybe taking advantage of the opportunity now. also, keeping a very close eye on the strategic assets of russia, its nuclear inventory, missiles and other types of things. again, i think this is still very, very unsettled. what happens in the coming days and weeks, again, wil

about t>> where does putin go , here raf. ? >> alicia, putin has a decision to make. does he try to move on from the chaotic events of this weekend, does he try to put it behind him? does he try to settle the score with yevgeny prigozhin? if we knew anything about putin, felicia, it's a man, he's a man, who does not forgive, it does not forget. there's a video going viral in russia right now. it's a 2018 interview that putin gave. the interviewer asks, is there anything that you can't forgive and putin's answer is immediate. he says a betrayal. and what we saw in russia this weekend's betrayal from putin's perspective on an epic scale. this is the biggest challenge to his power in two decades. putin's critics, his enemies, they have a habit of turning up dead, both inside russia and outside. it is hard to imagine that prigozhin can sleep easy at night in his exile inside belarus. on the other side of this equation, at least, yeah if putin cracks down too hard, he threatens and potentially risks undermining the war effort here in ukraine. we saw prigozhin clearly has a

putin is wrong about this too. the u.s., with our allies and partners, is firmly committed to supporting ukraine's defense, today, tomorrow, for as long as it takes. in america, this support is bipartisan. precisely because we have no illusions about putin's aspirations, we believe the key to diplomacy and real peace is a stronger ukraine, capable of defending against any future aggression. we have rallied a team around this. with secretary austen's leadership, more than 50 countries are helping. we are leading by the power of example, providing tens of billions of dollars for security assistance to ukraine with robust support for both sides of the aisle of congress. today, americans are allies and partners are helping me ukraine's needs on the battlefield while developing a force that can deter and defend against aggression for years to come. this means helping build the ukrainian military of the future with long-term funding, a strong air force centered on water combines aircraft, an integrated missile-defense ne

how much of that threaten putin's hold on power was it stage? i think only putin knows.o my mind this was a pretty elaborate thing the got way too far this was prigozhin off the reservation pushing ahead really show it got putin enjoying some of putin's weaknesses. quick to do that a deeper doctor rebecca griffis could have you on, thank you. coming up, new jersey are public on congressman jeff andrew joins us as coverage of the wagner revolt in russia continues. so, no matter what, i'm running this kitchen. (vo) make the switch. it's your business. it's your verizon. (vo) crabfest is back at red lobster. when you can choose your crab, and one of three new flavors like roasted garlic butter... ...this is not your grandpa's crabfest... ...unless grandpa's got flavor. dayumm! crabfest is here for a limited time. welcome to fun dining. we definitely have ants in here. not for long. [irish music plays] nice. what's going on here? i said get a pro. i did get a pro. ...an orkin pro. i got you. got ants? don't call any pro, call the orkin pro. orkin. the best in pests. him him

putin's thumb.deployed and mobilized have come from those outlying areas. and places like belarus, which is tenuous at best with mr. lukashenko, are now feeling like they don't have the support of a government that looks a little bit like it's starting to crumble and be more dysfunctional than it already has. so yes, i would suggest, having been a reader of the other country's associated with russia, that this is probably causing a whole lot of problems in a lot of foreign capitals right now. >> yes, i figure you're totally right. thank you very, very much for your analysis. we're closely monitoring this unprecedented, dramatic historic situation unfolding in russia right now. we'll explain the situation and how it impacts the overall war in ukraine, we're getting more information, that's coming up. ter advil dual action back pain... yo! uh! ha! ha! [dog bark] what? my back feels better. before advil... new advil dual action back pain fights back pain two ways. for 8 hours of relief. ♪ hit it ♪ ♪ it

even though he ended up standing down and putin nominally won this face-off, where does that leave putinow? >> kim, this is not only the biggest challenge to vladimir putin in over two decades of rule, it punctures the myth that he cannot be challenged. the kremlin has worked very acid w assiduously during the course of his presidency, his rule, to create this image of putin as sort of -- not just as a strong man, but as the confident hand that can steer the state. he has built this myth around him that he is the man who brought russia back from its knees after the chaos of the 1990s, the collapse of the soviet union. and his public image is incredibly closely handled, closely managed. that's important to bear in mind that in russia, essentially protesting the war, going out with a sign is potentially -- it's illegal. criticizing the military in russia has been outlawed. but prigozhin has now appeared on the scene, basically taking up arms, moving toward moscow, in open rebellion. there's no other way to put it. and so this poses a really, really serious problem for putin, who's basicall

we biggest guy in town and that is very bad for putin.— very bad for putin.ry bad for putin. we will leave it there and - very bad for putin. we will leave it there and thank i very bad for putin. we will. leave it there and thank you very much. steve fish, a politics professor at the californian university. the response from other countries to events in russia was cautious. nato said they were also watching events closely and the leaders of us, france, germany and the uk held a call to discuss the situation in which they reaffirmed their support for ukraine. following events from the us and how the white house reacted, here's cbs news foreign affairs correspondent christina ruffini. the us is watching this very closely, the president at the white house had an all hands meeting, of national security advisers, cia and secretary of state when they sat and talked about this and tried to figure out what was happening because as you know the news that information was dripping out very slowly. information was dripping out very slowly-— very slowly. president biden

putin was seen leaving. his fighters involved on this march on moscow, they won't be persecuted or prosecuted. they'll be given a sense of immunity after their heroic acts on the front line, according to the kremlin. and those in wagner, the mercenary group prigozhin heads who want to join the ministry of defense can do so. so a nice bow, frankly, wrapped in a day of utter chaos. it doesn't really make any sense. this morning yevgeny prigozhin is marching, demanding the top military are kicked out. he's accused of blackmail, terrorist methods by russian president vladimir putin who said he must inevitably be punished and those alongside him and now it is all forgotten and he's in exile. it doesn't make sense. we're clearly missing information. what is clear is that the putin regime looks like it is significantly weakened its grip on power over the last 48 hours. >> in ways that we have not seen in years. and here's something interesting that i guess we just learned in the last several minutes. the kremlin sp

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putin is not as often in the kremlin as lukashenko seems.ce, fly to putin and agree on what role you will have. -e is reserved in this play. well, that is, we still don't know what will happen next , and the russian elites. by the way, rotenberg also says that he flew out of moscow today on a private budget. minutes or hours, we will find out what it was, do you really understand that it was a performance from the first moment, or did the russian authorities accept some conditions, this is a good question, by the way, they are already writing that not all wagnerites are satisfied with the decision, it is done, and an internal riot may start there, too this is some part of the plan, or vice versa, now you can build a lot of surnames, we are not in context. so yesterday, when i was on the air , this story began, and we were literally forced. i would say from the wheels to comment and when we did not understand at all. 24 hours have passed, angelika, and in this same television broadcast, i have to record the end of these uh situations from dif

for putin, that's a huge loss. because it's a huge loss in the public sphere, as i've already mentioned, because there is a competing actor now. but also it's a huge loss for him in ukraine to no longer have this aggressive force that can scripts from the prison colonies and could be used and the sly as can part. >> how does this impact vladimir pin? how do you think this kind of splintering between putin and the beckoned ripples shape how putin is perceived in the public high? perhaps if they're any adversaries within putin's orbit waiting in the moment to strike, perhaps an opposition figure or someone who wants to emerge to challenge putin, you know, he knows that this is a historic challenge to his rule, as you set. it's different than political opposition. but how does this, for example, change putin's perception on those that may challenge his rule in the weeks, months, maybe years ahead? >> well it's kept putin's regime so stable is that he's more paranoid -- or just, that he's paranoid. and he tends to over

how does he behave towards putin?re he will remain a player in russia. what about further opposition? ijust wonder, bill, if watching the further developments, could opposition to putin's rule be emboldened now from other quarters, and if so what could that mean? i think it is absolutely going to be emboldened. anybody who dislikes putin, and there are many people who do will say, "wow, the king is not wearing "clothes. "let's think of our plan. "let's come up with something." so, at the end of the day, those opportunities for those people will very much depend on how ruthless putin becomes in his crackdown. and we are going to see a crackdown like we have never seen before in russia, and how effective that crackdown is and how scary it is for regular people who don't like putin will determine how much opposition comes and how many other people decide to have a go at him. well, tell us more about how you envisage a potential crackdown, because these events, they will not have gone unnoticed by the russian people. what

also drew a target on putin's back because putin is now he was already internationally decentralizedn he received an arrest warrant from the international criminal court in an international plan, but he humiliated his beauty among russians in front of the russians and he is now walking around with a target that he is weak and i am absolutely convinced that this is a process at the beginning the agony of this country is not in vain. kurt, our friend is great and well-known in ukraine. he declared that these events of yesterday are the beginning of the end of the war in ukraine. i think that we will have such consequences of these events and we will see how far-reaching they are deep as they will not affect the fate of er russia on the fate of the russian-ukrainian war in the end, mr. yury, there is such an opinion that is not very popular in ukraine now that we need to think about our actions now when russia begins to disintegrate because the big closet loudly and falls painfully and these are dangerous processes. and at the same time, there are and quite how do they say such controve

putin. and apparently the leader of belarus talked him down, under the condition that he leave the country and continue his overseas operation from his base in belarus. for ukraine, at least in the short term, this is very good news. because, i can tell you from speaking with senior ukrainian officials, they did not like having to confront wagner. it was different challenge, fighting the regular soldiers of the russian army, who were conscript soldiers, generally. also poorly equipped, many of them getting pressed into service. rounded up in their homes, given draft orders, given very little training and had been told to go off and fight in ukraine for a war that was poorly understood, based on vladimir putin's ideology and this very flimsy excuse that they are somehow fighting neo-nazis in ukraine, even though they're not neo-nazis in ukraine, and the president of the country, zelenskyy, is jewish. and he has nothing to do with near nazism. wagner troops were different. some of them wanted

there _ for president putin? i think it is a turning point. there is _ for president putin? point. there is no - for president putin? i think it is a turning point. there is no way - for president putin? i think it is a. turning point. there is no way that putin emerges at the same out of this. he comes across as a fairly weak president at this stage, he made a speech this morning which show that he is no longer in control of the situation in his own country. but there is an open rebellion against him. so even if this rebellion is crushed, i wonder what will happen further down the road and whether putin actually can survive this. we and whether putin actually can survive this.— and whether putin actually can survive this. ~ . , ., ., survive this. we are seeing now that some of his — survive this. we are seeing now that some of his regional— survive this. we are seeing now that some of his regional allies _ survive this. we are seeing now that some of his regional allies are - some of his regional allies are coming forward and landing him their support. we are moving into t

what will putin say tomorrow? indeed, he will come out and say, you know , we are sorry, the real hero of russia, yevgeny prigozhin, i signed a decree from his own the title of the hero of russia is idiotically true, that is, if he had remained silent afterwards he would have remained silent until tonight and everyone is saying and why is putin silent and why is putin silent, but now everyone understands why should we learn from this because he solved the problem and now he announced in the morning prigozhina became an enemy of the people in the evening prigozhyn became a friend of the people and somehow it will be strange if he is forgiven, it is very strange , this is such a thing. he's not in prison well, maybe he doesn't have a chance yet well, we have to wait another 15 minutes, we already have time, the program is running and i won't be surprised that there will be a change in the situation , the problem is that this is a statement that came out in e -e telegram channels , the press service of prigozhina and

putin's grip on power is slipping, this is a bad day for vladimir putin and so on. do you buy that or can he get back to business? >> i didn't see how he can, jim. he's, i think, wounded. now, a year ago, we were saying the poor ukrainians, how long do they hold out against the russians? who knows, not long. the business of predicting what putin and the rugtsssians are gg to do is fraught with danger and the expectations, the russian society have after their leader and the leader is supposed to provide them first and foremost with stability and safety, and even though this was a russian marching on, this is prigozhin, and his group marching on moscow, that is instability, and not to mention the ukraine war, that prigozhin said, putin said it's not true. it's a lie. that that cognitive dissonance, and inability, if russians get access to that, it will cause problems. he may have lost the confidence of his innermost eastern. the senior leadership. the real question, can he recover from that? if anybody's going to conduct a really successful coup against putin, it's go

is this putin's twilight? is too early to talk about twilight, but it is certainly a kind of turning point. to me, the most interesting thing about yesterday was the way that ordinary people in the city of rostov reacted to wagner mercenaries. they came up to them. they smiled at them. they had selfies with them. they waved them good-bye when they left the city in the evening. these were not people that were upset about violent nears carrying out regime change in their country. these are not people who are going to defend putin. many of our assumptions about his longevity and his popularity may have just been exploited by yesterday's events. i think the weaknesses of his regime and his power structure have been revealed and that is going to have consequences over the next few months. my guess is we'll be looking at one of two things and a crackdown and he'll decide he needs more violence to stay in power or mow chaos. >> what does this do to prigozhin? does this strengthen him? is this a threat to putin's lead

translation: i listen to vladimir putin now. translation:— listen to vladimir putin now.: ., ., , , , , ., translation: i am addressing russian citizens again- — translation: i am addressing russian citizens again- i — translation: i am addressing russian citizens again. i am _ translation: i am addressing russian citizens again. i am thanking _ translation: i am addressing russian citizens again. i am thanking you - citizens again. i am thanking you for your perseverance. this has shown that any blackmail, any attempts to cause domestic discord are doomed to failure. i will say this again, the highest level of social consolidation has been shown of the executive and legislature at all levels. the hard and unequivocal position of support was taken by religious conversions, essentially all of russian society and turned into one by the main thing responsibility for the fate. from the very beginning, all steps should have been taken to defend the constitutional order, the lives and security of our citizens. even though they became deranged, they could not but understand it.

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if, like you say, president putin created putin i actually simple.ut trying to dismantle this threat that he created in the first place? fist this threat that he created in the first place?— this threat that he created in the first lace? �* ., ., first place? at the moment we are in a wait and see _ first place? at the moment we are in a wait and see phase. _ first place? at the moment we are in a wait and see phase. if— first place? at the moment we are in a wait and see phase. if anyone - a wait and see phase. if anyone look5 a wait and see phase. if anyone looks at the seizure of ro5tov, the local garrison, the local national guard force, which is parallel internal security army, they neither resisted wagner, nor have they joined wagner. everyone is worried, waiting for orders from above. no one wants to take initiative, this is not how the system works. when it comes down to it i suspect that will see this e55entially turn into a 5iege, that ro5tov will become besieged, and they will try to negotiate yevgeny prigozhin's 5urrender negotiate yevgeny

since covid, vladimir putin is barely seen, we all remember the images of putin at the enormous deskiding so that he could come close to anyone he would meet, throughout covid according to numerous reports he secluded off into germ freely locations so he became more and more remote, more and more separated from the people, prigozhin was on the battlefield speaking directly in russian in a language that the average person could understand and relate to. >> richard, let me ask you quickly about a point you brought up, the videotape or the clip that we've seen i'm sure vladimir putin has seen it of prigozhin and his troops being essentially greeted, celebrated, it's anecdotal but nonetheless it will give a chill down the spine of vladimir putin, what do you think happens to prigozhin if you had to look at the way putin has behaved with people he has disliked in the past, the political opposition like navalny or russian spies who have been poisoned in england, uk, germany at the behest of russian intelligence services? >> well, most of them end up getting killed, most of them end up gett

and putin lost control. was on the verge of collapse. >> yeah. good point. how seriously do you think, gary, this unprecedented chaos right now undermines putin's grip on power? >> again, he lost prestige. dictator relies on his ability, and he's always the last decisionmaker. everything he says is the law. and it seemed that whatever he said in the last 56 hours didn't work out. it's not him, it's lukashenko who negotiated the deal. that's what they told us. we know that he even talked to the president, he was turned down. again, putin's badly wounded. i don't think he'll last long because he definitely has no control of russian security forces and army. if prigozhin hadn't decided to turn away from moscow, probably he would be now in control of russian cabinet. >> interesting. gary kasparof, thank you so much for joining us. >> thank you for inviting me. >>> just ahead, we'll have much more on the breaking news coming out of russia right now. we'll talk to a key u.s. lawmaker on the intelligence and foreig

it's vladimir putin weaker?he world, russia, and to ukraine that he is not weaker? >> i think he may need to try to demonstrate strength. i think that was part of the speech that we saw earlier today, demonstrating that he is in charge, demonstrating that he is head of state. in reality, if you look at it from world leaders perspective across the world, china thinks that putin might not have legs in the future. all of those strong men around the world in africa that believe that putin was a guarantor for an alternative system, something different than the united states and the western lead order, now they have serious doubts as to whether putin really has that power. i think from a basic strongman standpoint, he looks fundamentally weakened. this is a saving culture. you need to play a part of the strongman if that's the part you've chosen to play. and what he's experienced over the course of several days, and that armed insurrection, that basically he took over a large city, marched all over the way to the coas

for decades and know if putin falls, they fall and whose people are firmly supportive of putin and ofhe war. so, what we are now seeing is a gathering of the minds, if you like, russians support the putin. the russian press is saying it is back to business as usual we need to get on with the war that is their aim. it is likely to work one or two sidewinds are possible prigozhin may make more trouble. there are presidential elections next year for which this will play for the immediate future, it will calm down and they will get on with the war. the real future for putin doesn't lie in the prigozhin theater, but how they do in the war. if the ukrainians make the breakthrough which they are hoping for counteroffensive, then all bets are off. if russia is on the edge of catastrophic losing, then it is an issue for putin if the war is bogging down and the ukrainian advance remains blocked and it is an extended deadlock, then putin is there and pressure on both sides to get into some sort of talks. >> a lot to unpack there i want to go back to what julianna asked about this is to do with p

putin. i'm amara walker. >> i'm victor black man. it appears russia has been pulled back from the brink of chaos for now. they struck a deal to end an armtd armed insurrection bit the head of the wagner mercenary group yevgeny prigozhin. it was the most serious challenge to russian president vladimir putin's regime. >> the uprising was almost over as quickly as it began. we learned just a short time ago that chechen special forces deployed to the region are withdrawing. and the wagner chief confirmed that his troops were turning around and ending their march towards moscow. >> translator: therefore, realizing all the responsibility for the fact that russian blood will be shed from one of the sides, we turn our columns around and leave in the opposite direction to the field camps according to the plan. >> russia says it is dropping charges against prigozhin. he agreed to leave russia for neighboring belarus, but there is no word on where he is right now. >> as for vladimir putin, experts say